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Improvement Sprints
or Shuhari Sprints Nothing worth doing is easy and anything worth doing is worth doing well … or so the sayings go. My personal experience certainly proves to me that these are more than simple soundbites and I am fairly confident in those sayings having more than a ring of truth to most IT professionals. So…
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Concepts of Compliant Data Encryption
Introduction This is a somewhat lengthy article that is intended to help anyone who is taking their first steps into learning about encrypting sensitive data in a compliant environment such as meeting PCI DSS requirements. The hope is that this is an effective stepping stone into the dry, dry world of encryption standards and compliance.…
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Babeling in defence of JavaScript
And so it goes, the eternal question “What is wrong with JavaScript?” and the inevitable, inescapably droll, reply: Nothing![] == '' // -> true[] == 0 // -> true[''] == '' // -> true[0] == 0 // -> true[0] == '' // -> false[''] == 0 // -> true — Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@shanselman) June…
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A functional solution to interfacitis?
/ˈɪntəfeɪsʌɪtəs/ noun noun: interfacitis inflammation of a software, most commonly from overuse of interfaces and other abstractions but also from… well… actually it’s mostly just interfaces. An illness of tedium Over the years my experience has come to show me that unnecessary abstractions cause some of the most significant overheads and inertia in software projects.…
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Demystifying AI – The AI explosion
This is an article I had originally written as part of a stream of work that has now been put on hold indefinitely. I thought it a shame for it to languish in OneNote. What’s with all this attention to Artificial Intelligence then? Well that is a very good question. To be perfectly frank, not…
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FileFormatException: Format error in package
OK so we’re all completely clear on what this error means and what must be done to resolve it right? I mean with a meaningful error like that how can anyone be mistaken? Oh? What’s that? You still don’t know? Let’s be a bit more specific: System.IO.FileFormatException: Format error in package Better? Didn’t think so.…
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Crash debugging Windows 10 Mobile UWP apps
So your app is crashing This post explains how to get the details of the root managed .NET exception of a crash in a Windows 10 UWP app, specifically on the Windows 10 Mobile ARM platform. Hopefully this post will save you from some of the pain that I endured and aid you in getting…
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LinkedIn Error “There was a problem sharing your update. Please try again”.
Obscure Error I was trying to reply to a comment on an article I posted to LinkedIn the other day and kept hitting the error “There was a problem sharing your update. Please try again”. Just a note to help anyone who might come across this error when attempting to post an update to LinkedIn,…
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Things I wish I knew 10 years ago: Abstractions
We need to talk about abstractions The main reason I decided to start this blog is that I have begun working for a company that has genuinely challenged many of my assumptions about how software should be developed. I have spent much of my career learning from the more prominent voices in software development about…
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A C#/.NET SCEP Client
Source Code: Download Zip Archive As you have ended up here I must assume that, like me, you have a requirement to interface with a SCEP server using .NET and you have struggled to find any helpful examples of how to achieve this. I hope that this blog entry might be of some help to…
Helping with the taxing tech problems that get less attention
Stephen Roughley - A Common Developer 